Sentences with phrase «production systems studied»

The average fossil energy input for all the animal protein production systems studied is 25 kcal fossil energy input per 1 kcal of protein produced (Table 2).

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So, people who studied business - production systems or kind of old - school business philosophy maybe are familiar with it.

There are other factors at play though, and many recent studies have shown that the micro biome in our guts that is the foundation of our immune system and a major factor in hormone production is key to overall health.

For three years a comparative study on organic and non-organic strawberry production systems was carried out in Guangming Village, Jiangsu Province.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

Some studies are pointing to the fact that the same systems that allow the fetal cells to help with milk production in a mother's breast tissue, also help evade her immune system.

Our current alcohol tax system, branded «a mess» by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, perversely incentivises the production of cheap, high strength products.

In this study, the SIgN team discovered for the first time that the integrity of p53 affects the production of a special cell surface protein called Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I. MHC class I molecules on the cancer cell surface serve as targets for the immune system.

Immune system defenses against dangerous bacteria in the gut can be breached by turning off a single molecular switch that governs production of the protective mucus lining our intestinal walls, according to a study led by researchers at Yale, the University of British Columbia, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.

The new study also used a drug to block acupuncture's manipulation of the HPA system, and found that production of stress hormones equalized in all treatment groups.

Lamb's methane emissions project is part of a group of ongoing studies that are looking at the entire natural gas supply chain, from the production wells to the transmission pipeline system to local distribution systems.

The study was designed to determine the impact of two organically approved liquid fertilizer sources applied through fertigation on plant growth, yield, fruit quality, and soil and plant tissue nutrient status of «Marion» and «Black Diamond» blackberry grown in an organic production system.

«By synthesizing the results of field studies across the globe, we wanted to better characterize the factors that determine the magnitude of yield loss in legumes due to drought stress, which must be considered in agricultural planning to increase the resilience of legume production systems,» Wang said.

Publishing in Nature, the study reports that genetic alterations affecting a part of the PD - L1 gene increases the production of the protein, allowing cancer cells to escape detection by the immune system.

Publishing in Nature, a recent study reports that genetic alterations affecting a part of the PD - L1 gene increases the production of the protein, allowing cancer cells to escape detection by the immune system.

«The new model enables studies of the complex interactions between host cells, mucus production, and gut microbes in a system that closely mimics the situation in human patients,» Dawson said.

Implications of livestock farming on climate change should not be drawn from aggregate statistics, reveals a study based on a new method of carbon footprinting for pasture - based cattle production systems that can assess the impacts of individual animals.

Deepti Singh, the lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Earth System Science program at Stanford, said changes in the monsoon are important, because farmers there are very dependent on rain - fed agriculture for food production both nationally and for export.

«A take - home message from the study was that we need to expand the way we think about food production to account for the complex consequences of changing any individual piece within the wider food system,» says White.

Global methane and ethane emissions from oil production from 1980 to 2012 were far higher than previous estimates show, according to a new study which for the first time takes into account different production management systems and geological conditions around the world.

«We have developed a new type of protective coating that enables a key process in the solar - driven production of fuels to be performed with record efficiency, stability, and effectiveness, and in a system that is intrinsically safe and does not produce explosive mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen,» says Nate Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry at Caltech and a coauthor of a new study, published the week of March 9 in the online issue of the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that describes the film.

He notes that the new study is especially relevant because it worked in mammalian cells, which ultimately are a better way to grow the virus than eggs: It's a faster production system and avoids mutations that occur when the virus adapts to chicken eggs, which can compromise vaccine effectiveness.

Nestle: Right, but our food system has changed and right now because of farm policies that support the production of cheap ingredients in processed foods, processed foods are much cheaper per calorie than our unprocessed foods and vegetables per calorie; so that if you look at the studies that have been done, if you look at the cost of processed foods, it is a much greater bargain for somebody who is poor to buy junk food than it is to buy foods that are fresh.

The study shows successive changes in the size of domestic animals over time relating to changes in the landscape and production systems.

A new study shows successive changes in the size of domestic animals over time relating to changes in the landscape and production systems.

A new study of fetal tissue has revealed one way the developing immune system keeps itself in check: by interrupting the production of a key weapon in the body's arsenal against invaders.

Earlier studies suggested this process contributes to the high mortality and low insulin production often displayed in beta cell transplants, which aim to replace cells that the body's own immune system kills off in type 1 diabetes.

The SKIP - e bioinformatics system has been developed to assist researchers in selecting antisense oligonucleotides that can be used as therapeutic agents to restore the production of a functional deleted protein such as for DMD or as tools to study gene function through the inactivation of a protein through nonsense mediated decay.

NREL's strength in technology validation and lifecycle analysis on fuel cell products can be leveraged to study lifecycle of the hydrogen production component and system.

The results obtained by this service may be part of the documentation provided to other analytical services (TNA3), Adjuvants and delivery systems (TNA2) or Immunogenicity and efficacy studies (TNA8) as well as the Pre-clinical GLP production services (TNA4) and the GMP production services (TNA5).

To improve fuel production titer, rate, and yield (TRY), we study the producing host and fuel biosynthesis pathway intensively using various functional genomics tools such as targeted proteomics, metabolomics, and transcriptomics, and engineer the metabolic pathway in the producing host using synthetic biology tools and systems biology.

Renowned for our work in beta cell production and research, we are conducting studies to expand and boost insulin - producing cells and make them less susceptible to attack by the immune system.

With this exceptional leap in performance, new domains in infrared astronomy will become accessible, allowing us, for example, to unravel definitively galaxy evolution and metal production over cosmic time, to study dust formation and evolution from very early epochs onwards, and to trace the formation history of planetary systems.

The endocannabinoid system regulates energy homeostasis through G protein — coupled cannabinoid - 1 receptors5, 6 located in the central nervous system and in various peripheral tissues, including adipose tissue, muscle, the gastrointestinal tract, and the liver.7 While peripheral cannabinoid - 1 receptor activation decreases adiponectin production in adipocytes, 8 central cannabinoid - 1 receptor activation in preclinical studies stimulates eating, decreases muscle, and stimulates hepatic and adipose tissue lipogenic pathways in animal models of obesity.9 In genetic and diet - induced obesity, rimonabant, a selective cannabinoid - 1 receptor blocker, reduces overactivation of the central8, 10 and peripheral11, 12 endocannabinoid system8, 10,13 and prevents weight gain and associated metabolic disorders, thus revealing a novel strategy for the treatment of obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders.

And finally, certain studies have shown that indulging in the occasional high - calorie meal can boost the production of the hormone leptin, which increases the feeling of satiety, inhibits hunger and also regulates the body's dopamine system.

The body DOES have several systems in place that can slow metabolism somewhat - studies done on moderately hypocaloric individuals on extended diets show a moderate decrease in thyroid hormone production, changes in leptin / ghrelin levels (two hormonal mediators of food intake and metabolism), and slight changes in androgen / estrogen levels.

Traditionally, it has been thought that that 30 second mark was the extreme maximum amount of time you'd actually be able to tap into your creatine phosphate system, but studies have shown that creatine can contribute to ATP production during exercise well beyond 5 minutes and up to nearly 20 minutes of exercise.

Dr Bügel says: «No systematic differences between cultivation systems representing organic and conventional production methods were found across the five crops so the study does not support the belief that organically grown foodstuffs generally contain more major and trace elements than conventionally grown foodstuffs.»

A study conducted on Finish sauna revealed that it could work wonders on your immunity system as it helps in the production of white blood cells.

A 2005 study published in the Mediators of Inflammation shows that lentinan stimulates the production of interferon, which stimulates the immune system (6).

A 1989 study conducted by the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences revealed that Chlorella was able to increase production of spleen stem cells and bone marrow greatly improving the functioning of human immune system.

Agroecology is the study of ecological processes that are applied to agricultural production systems.

In the summer of 2012, she traveled to New Zealand and Australia to study wildlife, biological systems, culture and agricultural production.

MVSc (Veterinary Medicine), Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, India BVSc & AH, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, India Advisor: Drs. Andres Perez & Julio Alvarez Program: VMED, PhD Research goal: Studying antibiotic resistance in bacterial species prevalent in swine production systems in Minnesota

Semester 1 Game Design 1 - Introduction, 15 credits Minor Subject, 15 credits Semester 2 Game Design 2 — Game Development, 7.5 credits Game Production 1 — Arcade Game, 15 credits Minor Subject, 7.5 credits Semester 3 Game Design 3 — System Design, 15 credits Minor Subject, 15 credits Semester 4 Game Design 4 — Serious Games Design, 7.5 credits Minor Subject or optional courses, 7.5 credits Game Production 2 — Vertical Slice, 15 credits Semester 5 Optional courses *, 30 credits * within major, minor or other subject, alternatively studies abroad.

Semester 1 Game Design 1 - Introduction, 15 credits Minor Subject, 15 credits Semester 2 Game Design 2 — Game Development, 7.5 credits Game Production 1 — Arcade Games, 15 credits Minor Subject, 7.5 credits Semester 3 Game Design 3 — System Design, 15 credits Minor Subject, 15 credits Semester 4 Game Design 4 — Serious Games Design, 7.5 credits Minor Subject or optional courses, 7.5 credits Game Production 2 — Vertical Slice, 15 credits Semester 5 Optional courses *, 30 credits * within major, minor or other subject, alternatively studies abroad.

Semester 1 Game Design 1 — Introduction, 15 credits Test Driven Game Design 1, 15 credits Semester 2 Game Design 2 — Game Development, 7.5 credits Game Production 1 — Arcade Game, 15 credits Test Driven Game Design 2, 7.5 credits Semester 3 Game Design 3 — System Design, 15 credits Chosen Minor Subject, 15 credits Semester 4 Game Design 4 — Serious Game Design, 7.5 credits Chosen Minor Subject or optional courses, 7.5 credits Game Production 2 — Vertical Slice, 15 credits Semester 5 Optional courses *, 30 credits * within major, minor or other subject, alternatively studies abroad.

His training as an urban planner and sculptor, and subsequent time spent studying clay, has given him keen awareness of the poetics of production and systems of organizing.

«Immersing himself in the study of magic over the past two years, Kaino's inquiry unveils the restructuring of the social contract between art and audience, generating new conceptual strategies that bridge contemporary systems of art production and exhibition with the mythical and mysterious dimensions of magic.

«The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico persists due to continued fertilizer runoff and animal waste from increased livestock production,» said Ms. Naylor, a professor of environmental Earth system science and senior fellow at Stanford's Woods Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.